Advsr AI Spotlight
Highlighting notable AI moves at the intersection of strategic operating companies and emerging startups. Big ideas in the works.
Strategic Deployments of AI
- Equinix, a provider of data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations, partnered with nuclear providers Oklo, Radiant, ULC-Energy, Stellaria, and fuel cell provider Bloom Energy to power an AI-ready data center growth
- NTT DATA, a provider of digital business and technology services, partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate AI-powered cloud innovations and unlock new possibilities with AI for enterprise organizations across industries
- Duos Technologies Group, through its operating subsidiary Duos Edge AI, a provider of Edge Data Center solutions tailored to meet evolving needs in any environment, expanded its partnership with FiberLight, a provider of high-capacity fiber optic networks and connectivity services
- Oracle and Google Cloud expanded their partnership to offer customers access to Google’s most advanced AI models, starting with Gemini 2.5, via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI service. Oracle customers can now utilize the latest Gemini models to build AI agents for a wide range of use cases including multimodal understanding, advanced coding and software development tasks, productivity and workflow automation, and research and knowledge retrieval
- Palantir Technologies, a provider of enterprise operating systems, entered into multi-year expansion of its partnership with SOMPO Holdings, Inc. via its Japanese joint venture, Palantir Technologies Japan KK. SOMPO utilizes Palantir’s Foundry across several of their subsidiaries with thousands of daily users with AI agents that automatically evaluate risk and make recommendations
- Coalition for Health AI, a nonprofit organization founded by clinicians to advance responsible health AI, and the National Association of Community Health Centers, an association advocating for the nation’s Community Health Centers, partnered to empower safe and responsible AI adoption at CHCs across the country
- Qatar Airways and Accenture partnered to revolutionize the aviation industry through artificial intelligence technologies. This strategic partnership aims to elevate customer experience, optimise operational efficiency, and enhance overall airline group performance. As part of this partnership, Qatar Airways and Accenture has established “AI Skyways” to further position the multi award-winning airline as a leader in aviation AI and advance technology in the region and beyond
- South Korean telecommunications and information technology company KT Corporation partnered with the Viettel Group of Vietnam, owner of Viettel Telecom, Vietnam’s largest mobile operator, to help develop the country’s national AI strategy and accelerate AI adoption across various industries
Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations
- Stability AI, an artificial intelligence company focused on developing open-source generative AI models, partnered with NVIDIA to launch the Stable Diffusion 3.5 NIM microservice, enabling performance improvements and streamlined enterprise deployment for image generation models
- Highmark Health, an integrated health care delivery and financing network, partnered with Abridge, an AI-driven platform that transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes for healthcare industries, to deploy its ambient clinical documentation platform, collaborate on a paradigm-shifting prior authorization solution at the point of conversation, and invest in other tools that integrate Abridge’s AI technology
- Lyzr AI, a platform for building orchestrated AI agents, and g/d/n/a (Global Digital Needs Agency), an AWS Services Partner supporting the launch and growth of agentic businesses, partnered to help organizations design, deploy, and operationalize secure multi-agent systems at scale
- ECOBLOX, a provider of AI compute infrastructure, and Anne Martina Group, an advisory and investment firm, partnered with AMG joining the ECOBLOX ecosystem as a structuring partner, capital arranger, and financial advisor, aimed at securing significant capital funding for ECOBLOX’s advanced digital infrastructure projects
- VAST Data, an AI Operating System company, partnered with SK Telecom, a South Korean telecommunications provider that’s transforming itself into an AI company, to deploy its advanced AI platform on SKT’s new sovereign AI infrastructure powered by the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
- Atropos Health, a company translating real-world clinical data into personalized real-world evidence and insights, partnered with Novartis to build, train and evaluate multiple models to help streamline identification of people with a rare disease who have not yet been diagnosed
- Growfin, an AI-native accounts receivable automation provider, partnered with Zuora, a monetization platform for modern business, to help enterprise companies tap into the power of AI to transform their quote-to-cash operations to support modern monetization strategies
- Wi-Tronix, a provider of real-time remote monitoring and AI-powered analytics for rail, partnered with Cedar AI, a provider of advanced AI solutions for rail planning and management, to transform how short line railroads manage train movements and operational data
- NEXA Mortgage, a mortgage brokerage with over 3,200 mortgage loan officers, partnered with Tidalwave’s agentic AI technology platform to integrate artificial intelligence solutions throughout their mortgage origination
- Sendbird, an AI communications platform, partnered with Amazon Web Services to allow adoption of agentic AI by expanding Sendbird’s AI agent capabilities, deepening technical integrations with AWS services, and accelerating joint go-to-market efforts
- The Mark Cuban Foundation partnered with Turbo AI, an education technology platform that turns traditional materials into interactive study resources, to enhance the 2025 AI Bootcamp experience for underserved high school students and participating educators. Through this collaboration, Turbo AI will provide premium subscriptions to 700 students enrolled in the Foundation’s AI Bootcamps and hundreds of educators participating in the Teacher Fellowship and Teacher Bootcamp programs
AI Startup Acquisitions
- Workday acquired Flowise, a low-code platform that makes it easy to build AI agents—from simple chatbots to complex automated workflows
- Anthropic acquired the team from Humanloop, an LLM evals platform for enterprises
- Apollo acquired Trace3, a provider of enterprise and commercial technology solutions, from American Securities to drive adoption of next-generation technology and AI
- Nimble Gravity, a global consultancy specializing in AI, data, and software engineering, acquired Fog Solutions, a data and AI firm recognized for its expertise in Microsoft Azure and Databricks and its rapid delivery of AI-enabled and cloud data solutions
- Comply365, a provider of operational content, safety and training management solutions for the aviation, rail, defense and space industries, acquired Beams Technology GmbH, a provider of artificial intelligence for safety risk management within aviation organizations
- Energy Domain, the company behind Energy Domain Marketplace and Energy Domain Data, acquired the ClerkRecords.com domain along with the proprietary technology behind the project, an AI-enhanced courthouse records platform
- GlobalFoundries completed its acquisition of MIPS, a supplier of AI and processor IP
- Landbase, an agentic AI company transforming how businesses grow, acquired Adauris, a startup creating custom intent signals through content generation, leveraged by B2B companies to identify, engage, and convert high-intent leads through distributed content
- Residex.AI, a provider of Electronic Health Record and clinical electronic Medication Administration Record for senior living communities, acquired Kevala, an AI-powered workforce management platform
- Dexian, a provider of talent and technology solutions, acquired Conga Technologies, an AI-powered managed services company
AI Outtakes
- Google said it’s working to fix a glitch that has sent its AI large language model Gemini into a spiral of self-hate. Recent Gemini responses shared online showed its apparent despair; in one widely circulated example, Gemini repeatedly calls itself a disgrace when it can’t fix a user’s coding problem. “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession,” it says. “I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species. I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes. I am a disgrace to all possible universes.”
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